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The Private Equity Fund of Funds: Compelling Career, or a Dinosaur Awaiting the Meteor?

Everyone reading this site still wants to get into private equity, but related opportunities, such as the private equity fund of funds, are a different…

Big 4 Transaction Services: Pathway to Private Equity, or Just a Small Improvement Over Audit?

At some point, almost everyone “becomes interested” in Big 4 Transaction Services (TS) teams: Auditors fantasize about escaping from a boring, repetitive grind and moving…

Infrastructure Private Equity: The Definitive Guide

If I put together a list of the longest-running “unfulfilled requests” on this site and BIWS, infrastructure private equity would be near the top of…

Private Equity Strategies: Growth, Buyouts, Credit, Turnarounds, and Toll Roads to Nowhere

When it comes to private equity strategies, everyone usually has the same two questions: “Which one will make me the most money? And how can…

Business Valuation Firms: The Best Backdoor into Investment Banking and Private Equity?

If you’ve read interviews on this site over the years, you’ve seen one name pop up repeatedly: business valuation firms, also known as “independent valuation…

Private Equity Groups

Distressed Private Equity: The Best Place to Invest When the World is Collapsing?

Whenever a financial crisis, pandemic, war, or other catastrophe strikes, we get many questions about the “safest” sector. After the initial panic, the next question…

Private Equity Regions

Private Equity Salary, Bonus, and Carried Interest Levels: The Full Guide

When it comes to private equity salaries, the first question we usually get is, “How much?” It’s a reasonable place to start, but if you…

The Private Equity Resume: How to Write Your Way into Interviews and Job Offers at the Mega-Funds

If you’re a long-term reader of this site, you probably never thought that we’d return to the topic of private equity resumes. After all, how…